So says the GenderAnalyzer which attempts to guess the gender of a blog author by the content of the page. I put in SEB thinking that with all the foul language I tend to use it’ll guess I’m a man easily. Nope, it guessed SEB is written by a woman.
Not sure how it goes about formulating its guess, but it didn’t take more than a moment to come back with a response so whatever it does has to be pretty basic. It’s true that my first full name is commonly associated with the female gender, but I don’t use it on my site so that can’t be it.
To its credit, it correctly guess that my mother’s blog was written by a woman and ***Dave Does the Blog is written by a man, but it thinks my dad’s blog was also written by a woman.
If I were fifty years younger, I would have said “ooh, burn, Les! As it is, all I can say is: congratulations.
It missed the gender on mine too. I’d be curious to know what their algorithm is based on.
Might have to try it on a few candidates’ campaign sites.
Edit: Just for fun I tried it on http://www.tuckermax.com
Check out that site (NOT workplace-friendly, BTW), then guess which gender came up in the analyzer.
Yes, both of my old blogs show up as written by a female as well. I’ll choose to take that as the algorithm assuming “literate” and “well-spoken” are female traits.
Probably because you’re a little bitch Les.
It said mine is written by a man. I put in Maddox’s site and it ran away whimpering and hid under the coffee table while Maddox threw axes and chainsaws at it.
It said mine is gender neutral, with a slight preference for male. How strange, given that the word “mom” is even in the url.